Author(s): Ubhat Ali; Pratik Kumar
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Keywords: Lgal-bacterial consortia Surfactant Phenolic compounds
Abstract: The increased generation of wastewater in society has led to the development of a number of innovative treatment solutions to treat the influent wastewater. The use of an Algae-based Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor for influent wastewater treatment was monitored over 8 months in various conditions in batch mode and continuous mode for an increasing amount of emerging contaminants. In the batch mode, the removals were impressive at the rate of 94.02% for surfactants and 58.02% for phenol. Further continuous mode of operation was also done on the wastewater and various parameters were evaluated. The ammonia removal was found to be 91.91%, COD removal 93.41%, phenol removal 92.24% and anionic removal 59.49% as averaged over 4 consecutive loading cycles of 3 days having an HRT of 8-hours. The values are for the reactors with the best-performing bacterial consortia. Some other parameters like the pH, DO, salinity, conductivity, TDS, UV 254 were also recorded during the duration of these four continuous mode operation cycles.
Year: 2025